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THE GREAT BASIN OF WESTERN USA

THE GREAT BASIN OF WESTERN USA. THE GREAT BASIN lies between Wasatch Mountains ( Utah ) Sierra Nevada. What is the f lora and fauna of this desert area like?. home of small lizards as well as mountin lions, coyotes. Western fence lizard. Pronghorn.

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THE GREAT BASIN OF WESTERN USA

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  1. THE GREAT BASIN OF WESTERN USA

  2. THE GREAT BASIN lies between Wasatch Mountains (Utah)Sierra Nevada

  3. What is the flora and fauna of this desert area like? • home of small lizards as well as mountin lions, coyotes Western fence lizard Pronghorn

  4. History: Exploration and settlement • Archeological evidences of Human habitation • When was the area settled? • 12, 000 years ago • Who lived there at the time of European arrival? • Uto-Aztecen-speaking tribes, The Great Basin Tribes: the Shoshone, Ute, and Paiute

  5. Exploration and settlement • Who came 1st ? • 18th c.: Spanish • 19th c.:Hudson's Bay Company • Who made the 1st accurate map of the region? • John C. Frémont, 1840s • Why is 1846 important? • Oregon Treaty: USA gained full controll over the territory

  6. Exploration and settlement • Who created the first white settlement? • Mormons, 1848 Salt Lake City, Cache Valley • 1848? • Discovery of gold in California • 1986? • Foundation of The Great Basin National Park

  7. Concentrates in the two largest cities: Salt Lake City, Utah; Reno, Nevada Union Pacific Railroad connects the southern and western parts Present Habitation

  8. Tribes of the Great Basin-"The Desert Culture" • Who lived there? • Bannock, Goshute, Paiute, Ute Tribe, Washoe, Chemehuevi, Shoshone • How did they live? • Hunters, gatherers • Common territories , (need for mobility) Shoshoni tipi, ~1890 the last major chief of the Comanche Indians

  9. Tribes of the Great Basin-"The Desert Culture" • All but the Washoe spoke Numic language • What did they used for storage? • Pottery was rare, baskets for water, seeds, pine nuts Baskets from Dat So La Lee, Washoe artist

  10. Aztecs City builders (capital: Tenochtitlan) Agriculture: farming (maze, cocoa) Education in schools near their temples Religion: human sacrefices Died out (Hernan Cortes 1521) Great Basin Tribes Mobile: tepees Hunters, gatherers Education in white Mormon schools Religion: as a respons to poverty, and resistance (Ghost Dance) Survived (President Roosevelt: Indian New Deal, 1940s) Lifestyle of the Aztecs and the Great Basin Tribes

  11. Which lifestyle is more successful? The Aztec Eagle Knight vs Spanish soldier Sarah Winnemucca - Paiute writer and lecturer

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